ADRIAN RIFKIN: The Aesthetics of Being a Maoist

WE ARE THE TIME: Art Lives in the Age of Global Transition, this conference-festival took place between March 12 and March 16, 2012 at the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.
Gabriëlle Schleijpen, head of Studium Generale Rietveld Academie invited Aneta Szyłak, Grant Watson, Jorinde Seijdel and Alfredo Cramerotti to each inaugurate a discursive and performative program of one day.
Wednesday March 14:
HOW WE BEHAVE
Curator Grant Watson explored Foucault's proposition that life can resemble a work of art. Couldn't everyone's life become a work of art? David Dibosa introduces Foucault's epistemology. Foucault's interview "How we behave" from 1983 is restaged in collaboration with If I Can't Dance I Don't want to Be Part Of Your Revolution. Adrian Rifkin talked about the aesthetics of being a Maoist, drawing on aspects of his own biography. AA Bronson will discuss Foucault's concept folding together professional and biographical categories. Yael Davids develops with the audience, ideas about listening, recording and speaking.
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